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This project pays tribute to the voices of those who have united to establish collective influence in shaping decisions and affairs that impact the social, economic, and environmental aspects of Sunset Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, the project serves as a valuable tool for community organizing, especially in the face of city plans and real estate development agendas that increasingly target immigrant and working-class communities for expansion and profit. It aims to pass on knowledge to those who will engage in future struggles and to the next generations of Sunset Park&#8217;s activists. In essence, this project is a collective endeavor to draw wisdom from past experiences, enabling action in response to present and future rezoning and gentrification processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong>INTERESTED? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to the oral history interviews here: <a href=\"https:\/\/housingjusticeoralhistory.org\/projects\/sunset-park-is-not-for-sale-oral-history-project-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Housing Justice Oral History Project<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong>LEADER<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gabriela Rend\u00f3n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong>RESEARCH ASSISTANT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Xavier Moys\u00e9n Alvarez (P.h.D Sociology)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong>ADVISORY BOARD<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Genesis Aquino, Jeremy Kaplan, Antoinette Mart\u00ednez, Rodrigo Camarena, Marcela Mitaynes, Maria Roca, Elizabeth Yeampierre, and Betty Yu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This project documents, connects, and preserves the organizing efforts that residents, community leaders, grassroots groups, and community organizations have carried out to protect the working-class character of the neighborhood and the well-being of the working-class and immigrant communities that proudly call Sunset Park home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-3322","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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